Paris. An handicapped person in a wheelchair tries to board a bus. No one will move to make room for the chair. The bus driver, seeing this, asks the passengers on the public address system to step aside and let the handicapped person get on the bus. No one moves. After a few tries, the bus driver gets everybody off his bus, helps the man in the chair on the bus, and drives off with his single passenger.

Story told by the bus driver himself.

Paris region. Buses have been fitted with special lowerable platforms by an organisation in charge of taking handicapped shool boys/girls on wheelchairs to their schools, out in the suburbs. The drivers' pay is calculated so that they have an incentive to stop as little as possible. Result : They usually claim the platform does not work, and drop off the children wherever results in a faster stop. Said children then will then just wheel their way back to school.

Story told by an handicapped child father.